C. Stephen Witty: lives on a ranch in southern Colorado and publishes poetry in small magazines from time to time.

Wren Tuatha: earned her MFA at Goddard College. Her first collection is Thistle and Brilliant (FLP). Her poetry has appeared in Silk Road, The Café Review, Kaleidoscope, Canary, Pirene’s Fountain, The Lake, Sierra Nevada Review, Lavender Review, and others. She’s founding editor at Califragile and former Artist–in–Residence at Heathcote Center. She and partner, author /activist C.T. Butler, herd rescue goats among the Finger Lakes of New York.

Chloe Stricklin: is a Pennsylvanian poet living in Minneapolis, where she works in instructional design. She holds an M.Ed in Learning Technologies from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, New South, Arc Poetry Magazine, West Trade Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and others.

Pam Burr Smith: a prize winning poet, she has published short stories, essays, articles, and poems in many journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review and Kansas Quarterly. She is the author of two poetry books Heaven Jumping Woman and Near Stars, and a poetry chapbook She Speaks. She lives in Brunswick, Maine.